{"id":8093,"date":"2011-02-09T14:33:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T19:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=8093"},"modified":"2011-02-09T14:33:22","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T19:33:22","slug":"student-leaders-hold-prom-for-senior-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/02\/student-leaders-hold-prom-for-senior-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Student leaders hold prom for senior citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, Feb. 12, the Brock Leaders Citizenship Society (BLCS) will stage a Seniors\u2019 Valentine\u2019s Day Prom for residents at the West Park Health Centre long-term care home in St. Catharines.<\/p>\n<p>The students will provide everything from music and dinner to photos and corsages for the ladies.<\/p>\n<p>The BLCS is a group of exceptional Brock students recognized for a combination of high academic achievement and personal leadership abilities.<\/p>\n<p>Focused on helping young people develop strong leadership skills, the BLCS runs various social events and fundraisers at Brock and in the local community.<\/p>\n<p>Their efforts include last year\u2019s Flora Broley Memorial Ball Hockey Tournament, which raised $2,700 for the Alzheimer Society Niagara Foundation, as well as helping the annual Brock Shinerama, which raises money and awareness?for Cystic Fibrosis research.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming Seniors\u2019 Prom at West Park Health Centre is meant \u201cto give back to our senior community of Niagara,\u201d said BLCS spokesperson Amanda Slamka.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related links:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=2221\">Brock Leaders Citizenship Society pitches in | <em>The Brock News<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"facebook.com\/pages\/Brock-Leaders-Citizenship-Society-BLCS\/110596648960055\" target=\"_blank\">BLCS on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents at a St. Catharines long-term care home will have music and corsages this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[140],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8096,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8093\/revisions\/8096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}